In This Issue

• And the Winner is....
• Advertising Policy
  
• Links to Articles
• Uses for Flour
  
• This Month's Offers

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Link to Us!

Let your readers know about our site!  If you have a website or blog of your own, we'd be much obliged if you copied the button above on to a page for your readers to see, then just link it back to www.SimpletonSolutions.com:

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Would you like us to return the favor?  We will, if your site:

• Advocates frugality
• Sells products that aid frugal living  (See the Advertising article of this newsletter for details.)

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Flour Power

That fine, white powder is great for more than just cookies.  Flour has some wonderful properties:

• Use it as a mild abrasive for polishing stainless steel sinks, silver and other soft metals. (Equal parts flour, vinegar and salt work for copper and brass.)

• Rub a little on the scalp and shake it out to absorb oil; you might be able to skip a shower for another day.

• Ants won't cross a flour line.

• Shake some playing cards in a bag of flour to remove excess oil and stickiness from fingers.

• A paste made with flour and water makes the perfect non-toxic craft glue for young children.

• Make a more watery paste and add food coloring to make finger paint.

• Oh no!  Did you just get something greasy on your clothing?  Let a bit of flour sit on it and absorb the oil.

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August Specials

Of course, most produce is nice and cheap this time of year, thanks to the warm weather gracing local farms!

Be on the look-out for good deals on office supplies now that Back-to-School season begins in earnest.  Coupons may come in the mail to sweeten the incentive to stock up. Buy enough now to last all year.

Dairy is going to start getting expensive again soon, if there's room in the freezer, grab some extra butter at least...

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August "Lazy Daze" Edition

I seem to be accomplishing about a tenth of what I do in other months of the year. It's just so nice to sit by a pool and read...

 

Good thing there isn't much to do in the garden this month.  I just have to drag my lazy self out there with a colander about once a day to say "hi!" to the chickens and collect what's ripe: string beans, tomatoes, grapes, onions, squash, apples, and still lots and lots of herbs.  I try to remember to thaw some piece of meat to go with all the veggies for dinner.  And then it's back to my book.  Life is good!

 

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